The Mystic Gate. The Sacred Portal of the Mysteries (Used)

by Clark, James

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Binding: Paperback

Book ID: 9659, 9659

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133pp, with a b & w frontis, signed by the author, mint copies in stock. This is a wonderful and rare book, where the author has taken the fruits of a lifetime of study and travel and distilled his observations into a tale of transformation, loosely modeled on Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. This true story begins when Clark, dodging the Vietnam draft, goes to India and creates a life for three years as an astrologer to the many western pilgrims, drug dealers, and lay-a bouts in Goa. One of Clark's rare qualities is his simultaneous awareness of both the esoteric/spiritual events of our time, but also the political/exoteric, and their relationships.

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